Reviews of Games Backed on Kickstarter & Indiegogo

It has almost been two years (!) since I put any new content up on this blog. One of my summer projects is to review the role-playing, board, card, and dice games that I have backed on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. This is going to take more than a bit of time.

I have backed 119 (!) projects on Kickstarter and two on IndieGoGo as of the writing of this blog entry. Of those backed, only one failed to fund. I have only withdrawn my pledge from one project. I have only been unable to fund one project. My damn credit cards refused to pay to an English company—even though I had successfully paid the same company before. I ended up paying through PayPal. The vast majority of the projects are role-playing games.

I have had (mostly) success with the projects that I have backed. I have only had one project where the creator still has not delivered on the stretch goals even though the project funded almost three years ago. I have had another project that went belly-up after funding—but another developer picked up the ball and is making progress towards completing the project. Although I will probably just end up getting a pdf even though I backed for a book. The vast majority of the remaining projects were/are late on their promised delivery dates. So, my advice for you is to expect the projects to be late—sometimes up to a year or more late! Stretch goals seem to be the main culprit in making a project late to deliver.

I am going to start reviewing with the first project I backed on Kickstarter: REIGN Enchiridion by Greg Stolze/Arc Dream/Cubicle 7. This project funded on December 18, 2009. I pledged $15 for the softback, digest-sized book and the pdf. This project is old enough that it was created before Kickstarter required estimated delivery dates. My best recollection (It has been four years!) is that I received the pdf in March 2010, the physical book arrived in May 2010, and both were on-time.

Coming up next ... a review of REIGN Enchiridion by Greg Stolze.